Coloma celebrates James Marshall’s discovery of gold with Gold Discovery Day
This weekend, you can step back in time to California’s gold rush era. Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park and Gold Discovery Park Association will commemorate the anniversary of James ...
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Deseret News archives: Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, creating more westward rush
On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in Northern California, a discovery that sparked the California gold rush. As many as 25,000 miners headed to California ...
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The Discovery of Gold on This Date in 1848 at Sutter’s Creek Kicked Off the California Gold Rush and Transformed America
On January 24, 1848, American carpenter and sawmill operator James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. The discovery‚ facilitated by Native ...
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We're poised for a lunar ‘gold rush'
On a cold January morning in 1848, James Marshall was busy building a lumber mill in northern ... realized he had found gold in "them thar hills." His chance discovery marked the opening of ...
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Take a Sneak at the Gold Discovery Day event in Coloma
On Saturday, the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in Coloma will be holding a special event on Saturday to commemorate the day James Marshall discovered gold on January 24, 1848, at ...